Help needed to begin using app.

Littfisher

New to this App.
Are there step by step instructions to use the Diarium diary?
Starting with basic information as if I was a sixth grader!
I’m older and this app seems confusing to me, but I am willing to learn , if instructions are easily understandable.
This sites looks like it can offer me, and others, an outlet for personal feeling and days activity. Life is very difficult and from what I have read, this app can help sort out your most personal feeling privately.
Thank you.

timo

Littfisher Welcome to Diarium!
What is confusing for you in particular? I tried to make the app as self-explanatory as possible. Some of your questions might have been answered in the FAQ - for all others, please dont hesitate to ask, but not in the "feature requests" section of the forums 🙂

redeyeshev

timo Maybe worth creating a 'how to' section in the forum, Timo.? I'd be glad to help anyone struggling to use Diarium.

timo

redeyeshev Yes I was thinking of that myself. There are a few things/features that aren't obvious, even to more technical or long-time user (e.g. that you can create multiple entries a day or that the top left date is clickable in the calendar and entry view in the Windows app). So I might add that in the next few days.
I am still curious however what the main problems are for new users after they install the app. As I said, ideally I would be fixing those problems inside the app so they wouldn't have to read through "how to's"

Ltippett

I have to concur with Littfisher. I'm new to this app also... I like it, but there doesn't seem to be any 'manual' of sorts. Not even something as simple as a means to identify what some of the features are and if I should turn them on or off in settings. I like to familiarize myself with an app by reading through a manual, of sorts, just to get the lay of the land before I dive in. IS there a MANUAL Available outside of this forum? Something I can reference on my PC when I have a question on what this is, or what does this do, etc.?

timo

@Ltippett no, there is no manually. I tried to make the app as intuitive as possible - sorry that you are still having trouble understanding some of the apps features. As soon as I find more time (currently I am lacking it) I will wry to write a manual. Maybe, in the meantime the FAQs (which you can find here in the forums) answer some of your questions.

Ltippett

timo My concern was that, not knowing what something is or what it does, I'll activate something that is undesirable and then not know how to turn it off. Or I'll click on something and everything goes nuts on the screen and then not know how to undo whatever it was I did. I've been kinda reading through the forum posts with the hope that I can somewhat understand things better. Like Live Tiles. Haven't figured that one out yet... and what happens if I enable Facebook under Settings|Feeds and Events. Is it going to input every post I make or ask me if I would like to? Afraid to enable that in case all of a sudden I get an influx of posts populating the calendar. I'm still looking for more on that. 🙂

timo

Can you perhaps explain what exactly you experienced?
What "did go nuts on the screen"? 😃
As I said before, I would rather fix the problem itself instead of provide support on how the user has to fix it.
Please have a look into the FAQ. I feel like some questions you have (like the Facebook one) are already covered there: https://diarium.timopartl.com/d/14

Ltippett

timo I was speaking hypothetically. I have not experienced any irregular behavior yet, I was meaning that it only takes one click and stuff could happen and entire paragraphs COULD disappear. THIS is a concern of mine. Fear of the unknown. 🙂